AMEA 2010 Clinicians and Performers
Corey Spurlin serves as Associate Director of Bands, Marching Band Director, and Assistant Professor of Music at Auburn University. In addition to his work with the Sudler-winning Auburn Marching Band and Pep Band, Dr. Spurlin conducts the Concert Band, Campus Band, and is associate conductor of the Symphonic Band. He also teaches courses in conducting, wind band literature, and marching band techniques. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting from Louisiana State University, where he studied with Frank B. Wickes, and the Master of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in music education from the University of Alabama.
The R.F. Bumpus Middle School Concert Choir is a non-auditioned group composed of 7th
and 8th
grade
students who love to sing. The Choral Department at Bumpus Middle began when the school opened in 1999 and has steadily grown to in excess of 200 members in three grades as of this school year. The Concert Choir students are normally split into two graded choirs and have been combined for this performance. Both groups have received overall superior ratings at District Performance Evaluations for the last two years. Each year they perform a Fall and Spring Concert as well as a multitude of recruiting and community performances.
Dr. C. David Ragsdale currently serves as the conductor of the Wind Ensemble, Director of Bands, and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Associate Director of Bands for the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami where he directed the internationally-acclaimed "Band of the Hour" for the Miami Hurricanes, along with various other campus bands, including a two-year post as the Assistant Conductor of the Greater Miami Symphonic Band – one of the oldest and most storied Community Bands in the nation. In addition to university teaching responsibilities in the areas of music education and conducting, Dr. Ragsdale is an active performer/conductor and founder of the Huntsville Chamber Winds, a professional chamber music ensemble in the Huntsville area. Prior to his collegiate teaching career, Dr. Ragsdale taught music in the public schools of North Carolina where his bands earned consistent Superior ratings and numerous awards in concert and marching festivals across the state and the Southeast. During his public school career, he was named teacher of the year at the then-largest high school in the state and was a finalist for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997.
Dr. Ragsdale holds
memberships in the College Band Directors National Association and the National Band Association. Additionally, he is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia – Professional Music Fraternity for Men, Pi Kappa Lambda – National Honorary Music Fraternity, Kappa Delta Pi – National Honorary Education Fraternity, and is an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma – National Band Fraternity. In 2004, Dr. Ragsdale was inducted into the Iron Arrow Society, the highest honor attainable at the University of Miami. Dr. Ragsdale holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Appalachian State University (NC), a Master of Music degree from Winthrop University (SC), and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami (FL). He and his wife Jennifer, also a musician, currently reside in Madison, Alabama along with their daughter, Ella Leigh.
6 October 2009
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